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fitfully

/fit-fuhl/US // ˈfɪt fəl //UK // (ˈfɪtfʊl) //

偶尔,蹒跚而行,蹒跚地,依然

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : coming, appearing, acting, etc., in fits or by spells; recurring irregularly.

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Examples

  • After months of fitful supply, India’s Covid-19 vaccination program has finally reached a happy momentum.

  • Every day we spent 16 hours on small dugout canoes and then got eight hours of fitful sleep on the deck of a Melanesian sea craft.

  • There have been fitful mutterings about Catalonia, the region of Spain where Barcelona is, seceding from Spain.

  • So squandering away decades of a sterling credit rating over a “contentious and fitful process” will seem petty.

  • He made some fitful attempts to calm down a bit, filling modest, collage-like monochromatic surfaces with angular shapes.

  • The stress, compounded by fitful rest and sleepless nights, ages you quickly.

  • Hossein breathed heavily as he fell in and out of a fitful sleep.

  • It was still raining—a gray day with fitful showers that never entirely ceased but only varied in intensity.

  • Down below there are only fitful puffs now and then, telling of something else in store.

  • In the fitful firelights gleam they could see three shadowy figures crossing the creek.

  • In the soft wind the myrtle rustled faintly, and on the roses at our feet the dew-drops glinted in fitful splendor.

  • I hope he slept better than I did, for my own night was a series of fitful, restless tossings.